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02438aam a2200349 i 4500 001 92784D16BB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 221224s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022054439 020 $a 0197677568 020 $a 9780197677568 020 $a 9780190875541 020 $a 0190875542 020 $a 9780190875565 020 $a 0190875569 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BV4509.5 $b .J665 2023 082 00 $a 200.1/9 $2 23/eng/20230110 100 1 $a Jong, Jonathan, $e author. 245 10 $a Experimenting with religion : $b the new science of belief / $c Jonathan Jong. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 216 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a Across history, our understanding of God, the soul, spirituality, and even science itself has shifted dramatically. Today, we have more scientific knowledge than ever, yet some age-old questions persist: Why do we believe in gods, souls, and rituals? Are these beliefs innate? Do existential fears drive us toward or away from religion? What can we learn about spirituality from children? How can we leverage scientific thinking to study spirituality? This book invites you into the labs and minds of some of the world's most renowned psychological scientists for an in-depth look at how psychologists can study religion and spirituality-and how they wrestle with doubts about ostensibly established findings and methods, even as the field advances. From China, India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Tuva, this book takes a balanced perspective on a diverse range of experiments and studies, casting a light on both their brilliance and their limitations. Ultimately, this book reveals that psychological experiments that test spiritual beliefs are works of imagination that can help us discover truths about the human mind's proclivity for religious ideas, as long as we can adapt and learn along the way. 650 0 $a Religiousness. 650 0 $a Psychometrics. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Jong, Jonathan. $t Experimenting with religion $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] $z 9780190875565 $w (DLC) 2022054440 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012617.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=92784D16BB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search